Bangkok Noi Wongwienyai Station

Amazing ride with the Maeklong Railway

Many travelers visiting Bangkok the first time wish to escape the mega city as soon as possible after having seen the most popular sightseeing points like the Grand Palace or the Floating Market in Damnoen Saduak which are the destination points for thousands of package tourists.
The most amazing points in Bangkok and environs aren't well known from most of the tourists, visitors keep it secret an…  (read more)
Train conductor?

Train conductor?

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After a short instruction I understood how to drive the train.
Dashboard in conductors cabin

Dashboard in conductors cabin

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Don't worry, actually I didn't drive the train, I just exercised how to handle. I was standing in the last rail car inside the driver's cab and therefore I was going backwards.
Local passengers in good constitution

Local passengers in good constitution

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Happy and relaxed passengers, Thais are able to sleep every where at every hours. Sometimes I envy for their natural nerve system.
View out the trains rear window

View out the trains rear window

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The train track sometime seems going through private backyard gardens.
Rail track through house backyards

Rail track through house backyards

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Some residence people use the rail track for drying their laundry, remove all short time before the train is going to pass.
Inside the train coach

Inside the train coach

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Local habitants riding the train, we're an attraction as the only tourists being in the coach.
View out the coach window

View out the coach window

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While the train goes in s slow speed toward the end of the line Maeklong, the view out the window is like a natural theater, changing its scene every moment. We passed hundreds of water pools and green fields. Thailand like in a book of fairytales.
Agrar fields along the railway route

Agrar fields along the railway route

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From Bangkok Noi to the final station Maeklong we come to three provinces, here we enter from Samut Sakhon to Samut Songkhram, the smallest province out of 75 in Thailand.
Fields for producing solar salt

Fields for producing solar salt

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Salt winning is the most popular industry in Samut Songkhram. Samut Songkhram isn't only the smallest province its flattest province in Thailand too. Ideal for its water pools and for gaining salt.
Producing salt

Producing salt

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Out the train window people can see the most foreign workers (some are kept illegal to keep them under more pressure and lower payments) most of them fro Burma (Myanmar).
Arrival of the urban area of Maeklong

Arrival of the urban area of Maeklong

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The view out the window of the last car of the train changed from going through the agrarian fields to going through the back yards of the housing settlements of Maeklong ...
Crossing the city main road

Crossing the city main road

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... then crossing the main road ...
Railway going on down into the town

Railway going on down into the town

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... coming closer to the town market ...
The town markets area starts

The town markets area starts

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... and enters the area of the market of Maeklong.
Train passes through Talad Rom Hoop market

Train passes through Talad Rom Hoop market

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In the moments of seconds market vendors open the tarpaulins and remove every thing which is still lying on the rail, then let pass the train in the speed of walking pace.
Buzz of activity at the Talad Rom Hoop market keeps on

Buzz of activity at the Talad Rom Hoop market keep…

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Vendors move away their sales products - here durians - to let the train go passing.
Fruit stall and passing customers

Fruit stall and passing customers

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Not one kind of Thai fruit is missing to sell at this market, here mangoes and mandarines.
Market not far away the station

Market not far away the station

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Just a steps further, crossing a town road, the Railway station entrance is the end of the train ride.
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